Re: ext3 journel aborted in 2.6.0-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Not sure what the cause of this type of error is but i've only seen it 
> in the very late test releases of 2.6.0 and now in the mm1 patch (i've 
> always used the mm branch of the test releases).  It seems to like to 
> happen to my partition that has /var/ on it during an updatedb and log 
> rotate that is standard practice in most distributions. I'm using debian 
>   unstable if that helps narrow the problem down, however it seems more 
> likely to be a kernel problem possibly in one of the patches that's been 
> in mm's tree for very recent test, and now release, kernels.
> 

I'd need to see the kernel logs at the time when the abort happens.

An internal filesystem inconsistency will certainly cause this.  Force a
fsck.

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